Pensamos que somos historia porque sabemos que somos historia: context, self and self-construction in women's testimonial writing from revolutionary Cuba

This article presents a group of women-authored testimonial texts published between 1959–1989 in revolutionary Cuba. Despite the recent scholarly debates within Latin American Cultural Studies regarding Latin American testimonio, these texts have received little or no critical or theoretical attention within or outside Cuba. The article therefore starts by situating them within the specific context of revolutionary culture, especially with reference to questions of gender, genre and publication. Having established that the texts as a whole privilege the collective revolutionary context and revolutionary experience over gendered or generic aspects, the seven texts are then grouped under a more specific contextual category, as narratives of voluntary work (participation and observation), in order to provide a clearer structure for their description and analysis. Each of the texts is then described within its sub-group, and the article ends by indicating how such texts challenge testimonio paradigms by positing a relational notion of subjectivity.

Una literatura peligrosa : relatos testimoniales y sectores subalternos en el programa estético-político de Rodolfo Walsh

El presente trabajo se ocupa de desarrollar una reflexión sobre los textos testimoniales escritos por Rodolfo Walsh durante los años setentas abordando las cuestiones estéticas, ideológicas y políticas que suscita una operación de lectura que pone en juego las inflexiones en la trayectoria del autor y ciertos debates de la intelectualidad de izquierda argentina y latinoamericana. En tal sentido, se intentará dar cuenta tanto de las continuidades como de las modulaciones que presenta la escritura testimonial de Rodolfo Walsh luego de una inflexión identificada en torno a los años 1968-1969, atendiendo a las marcas de la configuración de su habitus, a su posicionamiento en el campo intelectual y a sus intervenciones en el terreno de la militancia política. De este modo se buscará indagar sobre las implicancias y propuestas estéticopolíticas que esos textos generan en torno a los vínculos entre escritura, literatura, testimonio y sectores subalternos. Mi lectura, entonces, se centra en las prácticas de escritura testimonial walshianas que, en tanto articulan una narrativa de la experiencia histórica de los sectores populares, cuestionan los modos de concebir y producir el ejercicio de lo literario en tiempos de revuelta.

Optical And Nonoptical Aids For Reading And Writing In Individuals With Acquired Low Vision.

To evaluate the use of optical and nonoptical aids during reading and writing activities in individuals with acquired low vision. This study was performed using descriptive and cross-sectional surveys. The data collection instrument was created with structured questions that were developed from an exploratory study and a previous test based on interviews, and it evaluated the following variables: personal characteristics, use of optical and nonoptical aids, and activities that required the use of optical and nonoptical aids. The study population included 30 subjects with acquired low vision and visual acuities of 20/200-20/400. Most subjects reported the use of some optical aids (60.0%). Of these 60.0%, the majority (83.3%) cited spectacles as the most widely used optical aid. The majority (63.3%) of subjects also reported the use of nonoptical aids, the most frequent ones being letter magnification (68.4%), followed by bringing the objects closer to the eyes (57.8%). Subjects often used more than one nonoptical aid. The majority of participants reported the use of optical and nonoptical aids during reading activities, highlighting the use of spectacles, magnifying glasses, and letter magnification; however, even after the use of these aids, we found that the subjects often needed to read the text more than once to understand it. During writing activities, all subjects reported the use of optical aids, while most stated that they did not use nonoptical aids for such activities.

Proposal of a High-Level Language for Writing Self Modifying Programs

This paper proposes a simple high-level programming language, endowed with resources that help encoding self-modifying programs. With this purpose, a conventional imperative language syntax (not explicitly stated in this paper) is incremented with special commands and statements forming an adaptive layer specially designed with focus on the dynamical changes to be applied to the code at run-time. The resulting language allows programmers to easily specify dynamic changes to their own program`s code. Such a language succeeds to allow programmers to effortless describe the dynamic logic of their adaptive applications. In this paper, we describe the most important aspects of the design and implementation of such a language. A small example is finally presented for illustration purposes.

Catalyst Writing Syndicate Meetings Agenda 2007

Meetings take place 1-2 pm Wednesdays. The April/May convenor is Nicki Sochacka.